Since the official end of summer is just a few days away I wanted to get in one last summer post.  There are several random things I want to fit into this post, but the first is our fishing expedition.  We found a fantastic place on the river to swim and play back in August.  I LOVE being five minutes from the river, btw.  This particular day we weren’t actually planning on swimming, just exploring.  But when we got to this spot with shade and sand and shallow water all the way across, we decided to go get our swimsuits and come back to swim.  The boys also wanted to go fishing.  So we drove home real quick, found string and some sticks, grabbed the swimsuits and headed back down to the river.  We took our chairs down, and had just laid everything out perfectly when Libby had to go potty.  There were no potties around so I took her a little ways off to have her try and go squatting style.  I was NOT hopeful. She only just mastered the toilet, afterall.  But just as I started to have her do her thing, a snake slithered out of the brush two feet from where she was standing.  Nevermind!  I grabbed her and told the boys we had to go home again.  They weren’t happy, but such is life.  Ok, I wasn’t happy either, but I didn’t feel like it was a good option to force her to pee on the snakes.  So home we went again.  This time, right as I got everyone back in the car I got a reminder on my phone that in half an hour Reagan had an orthodontist appointment.  Grrr.  I was not going to go back down to the river only to turn around and leave 15 minutes later.  So I hauled them all back out of the car until it was time to do the Ortho.  Getting dizzy yet?  I was.

Finally, much later than originally planned we got back to “our” perfect spot on the river.  By this point, there were other people in “our” spot having a little drinking party.  It was just two women and they were not hanging from the branches in a  drunken stupor so we stayed.  They had, however,  taken the ONLY shade left at that point in the afternoon, so I had to sit in the roasting sun while the kids played in the river.  Oh well.  What’s a little sweat?  Here are the fun pictures I got of their “fishing expedition”

Who knew you could fly fish with a stick and some string.  Oh, and a safety pin too.

About a week later I was out running in the park behind our house and caught this great sunrise.

Then just last week we had some good friends came to visit and I just had to get in this picture of the breakfast smoothies…..

Only four of these were for the adults…..

And here is the big finale for the summer of 2013:

Teaching Levi to ride his bike has been on my to do list all summer.  Big brother (and natural skill) took care of it for me!  They took off his training wheels and away he went!

The leaves are starting to change color in our yard and it is getting chillier so summer is definitely on the way out.  But it’s been a good one!